Blizzard Announced Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft and Screens/Trailer

New free-to-play strategy card game for PC and iPad lets you hang up your sword . . . and throw down your gauntlet

Blizzard Entertainment has revealed Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, a new cross-platform free-to-play game developed for Windows, Macintosh, and iPad. In Hearthstone, players build card decks centered around one of nine iconic Warcraft character classes and duel each other for fun, glory, and the chance to win awesome new cards. In addition to honing their skills in practice matches against the computer and taking on their buddies via their Battle.net friends list, players can challenge each other in two competitive game modes. Play Mode features traditional head-to-head battles, with players facing off for a chance to increase their medal ranking and earn card packs along the way. And for a different type of challenge, players can enter The Forge, where they start each match by building a deck from a new set of cards, and then use that deck to duel other Forge participants. Aside from winning new cards, players will be able to round out their collections by purchasing new card packs or disenchanting some of their existing cards to craft the ones they’re missing.A batch of screenshots and a cinematic video have been added in our download section.